The open educational landscape
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Practices, resources and other animals:
trends in the open educational landscape
Paul Richardson
Jisc RSC Wales
With thanks to Lis Parcell, Jacquie Kelly,
Lou McGill, David Kernohan, Esther
Barrett
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The open educational landscape
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Open Educational Resources/ Open
Educational Practices
 What are the current trends?
 What can we learn?
 How are educators and organisations adapting?
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“Once we have computer outlets in
every home, each of them hooked up
to enormous libraries, where anyone
can ask any question, and be given
answers, be given reference material. If
you ask, and you follow up, in your own
home, at your own speed, and in your
own direction, and in your own time,
then everyone will enjoy learning.”
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“Once we have computer
outlets in every home, each of
them hooked up to enormous
libraries, where anyone can ask
any question, and be given
answers, be given reference
material…If you ask, and you
follow up, in your own home, at
your own speed, and in your
own direction, and in your own
time, then everyone will enjoy
learning.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJAIERgWhZQ
Isaac Asimov,
1988
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Is Asimov’s vision utopian, or dystopian?
Is this becoming a reality?
How nearly does today’s situation approach this?
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Some Practices: Mark any which apply…
• I share my educational resources with
colleagues
• I share my teaching and knowledge practices
with colleagues
• I use open educational resources
• I share my educational resources outside my
institution/organisation
• I share my teaching and knowledge practices
outside my institution/ organisation
• I use the web to support my learning
With thanks to Lou McGill
http://www.slideshare.net/loumcgill/open-practice-across-sectors-teplsig-webinar
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• “Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching and
learning materials that are freely available online for everyone
to use, whether you are an instructor, student or self-learner.
Examples of OER include: full courses, course modules,
syllabi, lectures, homework assignments, quizzes, lab and
classroom activities, pedagogical materials, games,
simulations, and many more resources contained in digital
media collections from around the world.”
http://www.oercommons.org/
• “Resources that are specifically licenced to be used and reused in an educational context”
Open Educational Resources InfoKit
https://openeducationalresources.pbworks.com
http://www.opentapestry.com/
http://www.vidacollection.org/browse/browseRecords/detail?recordId=575
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What would transform this object into a
learning object, or a resource?
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http://www.vidacollection.org/browse/browseRecords/detail?recordId=575
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CREDIT
COURSES
RESOURCES
“LEARNING OBJECTS”
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CREDIT
COURSES
RESOURCES
“LEARNING OBJECTS”
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CREDIT
COURSES
RESOURCES
“LEARNING OBJECTS”
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CREDIT
COURSES
RESOURCES
“LEARNING OBJECTS”
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Aggregation
CREDIT
Integration
COURSES
Value
Cost
RESOURCES
“LEARNING OBJECTS”
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Discovering Resources
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What strategies/approaches do you
use for finding teaching and learning
resources?
Please make some notes in the chat pane….
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Reliable
Abundant
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Browse a
Portal
Reliable
Abundant
Google it!
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Main strategies are …
• Browse
• Search
• Share
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Main strategies are …
• Browse
•
•
•
•
Local resources
Trusted sources
Relevance assured?
Limited range?
• Search
• Wide range
• Relevance doubtful
• Quality variable
• Share intelligence
• Formal/informal peer review)
• Can be time-consuming to engage
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Finding examples of OERs
http://www.jorum.ac.uk/
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What strategy are you using?
How effective is it?
Do you need to switch, or add strategies?
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Models of resource creation….
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Courses, or parts of courses, made
available…..
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/physics/index.htm
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http://www.open.edu/openlearn/
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Government-sponsored Initiatives
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Participitative Resource Creation
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https://openeducationalresources.pbworks.com
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How to find out more
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Jisc information and services
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Jisc RSC Wales webinars
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 More Lunchtime Bytes on the Open Educational
Landscape - all 12.30-13.30
 23 April - Finding free and open resources for teaching:
Jorum and the OER landscape
 13 May - Online learning at scale: responding to the
MOOC invasion
 24 May – More on the Open Educational Landscape with
Lou McGill (help us design the webinar! ) - Will also
include Paul Bacsich on the International dimension
 All event at details http://bit.ly/RSCWalesevents
 Next week follow #OER13 - 26-27 March